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Trane Technologies Charitable Foundation

Davidson, NC · EIN 20-2045897. Reported 26 grants totalling $7,410,646 to 26 recipients across tax years 2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$112,500median grant
$7,410,646granted, 2024
26recipients, as named on its returns
$2,060,757assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Trane Technologies Charitable Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $112,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $50,000 and $493,602; the smallest was $8,766 and the largest $1,130,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
2 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
5 grants
$100,000 and Up
15 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
The Manufacturing InstituteWashington, DC$1,130,000112024
Emergency Assistance Foundation IncWest Palm Beach, FL$1,038,109112024
Foundation for the CarolinasCharlotte, NC$933,334112024
American Online Giving FoundationNewark, DE$668,514112024
Charlotte SymphonyCharlotte, NC$500,000112024
Oneten Coalition IncWashington, DC$500,000112024
Science Museum of MinnesotaSt Paul, MN$493,602112024
Project ScientistLaguna Beach, CA$410,000112024
Reading Is FundamentalWashington, DC$299,837112024
DigibridgeCharlotte, NC$290,000112024
Cal Ripken SR FoundationBaltimore, MD$150,000112024
Scholarship AmericaSt Peter, MN$127,770112024
Opportunity at WorkWashington, DC$125,000112024
Redeem DetroitDetroit, MI$100,000112024
The University of Mississippi FoundOxford, MS$100,000112024
FoodchainLexington, KY$97,980112024
Mercer UniversityMacon, GA$93,735112024
Laamistad IncAtlanta, GA$80,000112024
The RocCharlotte, NC$75,000112024
Junior Achievement of Ctrl CarolinaCharlotte, NC$50,000112024
Rise Against HungerRaleigh, NC$44,829112024
Sc Governors School for Sci MathHartsville, SC$30,000112024
Dottie Rose FoundationCharlotte, NC$26,000112024
Ada Jenkins CenterDavidson, NC$20,000112024
National Merit Scholarship CorpEvanston, IL$18,170112024
Uk Online Giving FoundationCirencester, Gloucestershire$8,766112024
Plus 95 grants to individuals totalling $17.9M -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 19 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Education
7 grants
Human Services
3 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 grants
Arts & Culture
2 grants
Youth Development
1 grant
Crime & Legal
1 grant
Employment
1 grant
Food & Nutrition
1 grant

Where its money goes

28% of its giving went to organizations in District of Columbia. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

District of Columbia
$2.1M
North Carolina
$1.9M
Florida
$1.0M
Delaware
$669K
Minnesota
$621K
California
$410K
Georgia
$174K
Maryland
$150K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

American Online Giving Foundation Inc17 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund17 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc16 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America15 shared recipientsThe Blackbaud Giving Fund12 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust12 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $112,500. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in District of Columbia.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Trane Technologies Charitable Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 800 Beaty St Ste E, Davidson, NC, 28036. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 20-2045897 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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